[SECC] SECC Digest, Vol 155, Issue 4o0pl

Fri Nov 6 12:02:41 EST 2015

Norm
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>    1. SS CW Activity Analysis (W4OC at aol.com)
>    2. SS-CW (halken)
>    3. Hear what you sounded like at V47T (David Jones)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:29:07 -0500
> From: W4OC at aol.com
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> Subject: [SECC] SS CW Activity Analysis
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> I have updated my original SS CW activity
> analysis from the received logs to include
> 2006 through 2014.
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> The analysis is total number of QSO's by band
> and by hour for each year and a summary of all
> nine years.
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> This info helps in planning off times and best band(s)
> for operating by hour based on historical data.
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> If interested, contact me directly and I can email
> the analysis pdf files to you.
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> 73
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> Don W4OC
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> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:20:44 -0500
> From: halken <halken at comcast.net>
> To: SECC <secc at contesting.com>
> Subject: [SECC] SS-CW
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> I thought I would echo some of K4BAI's suggestions - and I recall Bill
> Fisher (sk) mentioning some of these as well....
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> 1 - Stay in the chair for the first six hours - at least.  Don't think
> about getting up.
> 2 - Take off times in half-hour increments...
> 3 - Prepare!
>      I am always amazed at the email on the logging software reflectors
> about how to set something up -- 1 hour before the start.  The station
> should already be 100% checked out - the start is only 48 hours away.
>      Update SCP and a history file if you use those...
>      I always have a slip of paper under my elbow of stations I have
> worked in rare sections in years past.  If you can't remember WD0T is in
> SD - well, it's on your slip of paper.
>      Study the propagation forecasts and activity by band by hour in
> past years.  (W4OC has national data.  Check your own past logs for
> local data)
> 4 - 15M is a good band to put a second radio on if you are SO2R.  At the
> start it's mostly the West Coast coming in, and over many years I have
> found it impossible to run on 15 from the East Coast at the start - even
> when signals were strong.  I would not go near 15M at the start if I
> only had one radio.  You can work nearly all those W6s later in the day
> on some other band, and none of the west coast sections are "rare."
> 5 - There are no meters like 40 meters.  W9RE and I have had chats and
> agree that you can post a very good score (probably not top 10) by just
> staying on 40.  Park on 7032 and call CQ for 24 hours and you can be
> over 160K points.  A low dipole on 40 is a great SS antenna.  A lot of
> serious contesters put up low dipoles just for SS.   You will need to be
> LOUD to hold down 7032, hi, hi.
> 6 - Check 160 on the hour and half hour.  There are some 160-only
> non-contesters who seem happy to hand out Qs every year.  You can't get
> them anywhere else and every Q counts if you are trying for a big score.
> 7 - My impression is the last hour and particularly the last half hour
> are very poor.  Others may see it differently.  Working the west coast
> on the low bands is esy (and necessary) on the first night.  On the
> second "night" remember the contest ends around sunset on the west
> coast... With a good station you can work the west coast on 40 and 80 at
> the end...but there won't be many of them left on the air...
> 8 - I have worked VY1 several times very early on Sunday morning, around
> 1100Z-1200Z, by calling CQ on the bottom end of 40.  VY1JA used to S&P
> 40M around that time every year and there is little competition.
>
> Please post to 3830 and contribute your score to SECC - even if it's 10
> QSOs.
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> Most of all...Have fun -
> 73,
> N4GG
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:18:02 -0500
> From: "David Jones" <w2gdj at wildblue.net>
> To: <NCDXCC at yahoogroups.com>,   "SECC" <secc at contesting.com>
> Subject: [SECC] Hear what you sounded like at V47T
> Message-ID: <4C815A8B27B24B8EA2E12F26DD757295 at DavidandJoanne>
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> Win-Test Qso Player by F6FVY
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>      Win-Test Qso Player by F6FVY
>       Listen to your QSO with V47T during the CQWW SSB 2015 contest!
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> Click on the link and fill in your call (or a friends call if you want to
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> Dave W2GDJ
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